Is Jediism a Superior Religion to Christianity？
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Why is Jediism a superior religion to christianity? Why is it so popular in a world where a fake religion that has about 12 lines of dialogue backing it up in the films still holds the hearts of millions of people?
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the order of jedi knights is a fictitious religious order from a series that had four and a half good
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movies so no it's not a superior religion to christianity or just about any other one
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and yet it's a question that kind of bites in doesn't it
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now maybe this is just my zillennial addled mind granted i don't think star wars is quite as popular
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as it used to be in the day and yet it still has some staying power
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specifically what i'm thinking about what kind of sparked the idea for this video
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was an event that i'm way behind on an event from 2001.
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see back then in the the very early days of the internet there's this chain email going around
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in australia in particular saying that if enough people claim on the this year's census that their
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religion is jedi it will have to become an officially recognized religion
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but as a consequence about one percent of the population
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of australia new zealand canada the uk ireland scotland all registered jedi
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on their census forms it was also extremely popular in the czech republic as well although there
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the fact of the matter is that the the jedi mythos of the star wars saga has really captured the minds
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and even after a lot of really bad movies and tv series it still captures the minds
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the temple of the jedi order gained tax-exempt status and in 2007 in britain a man by the name of
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and unlike some other religions we aren't going to name because i don't want to get sued like these
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aren't fake either they're they seem quite sincere in trying to take these jedi principles and apply them
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so why is it why are we living in a world where
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that has about 12 lines of dialogue backing it up in the films
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why is this so popular why can i have an edgy title for a video like this one
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and the title you don't immediately dismiss it you read the title and you say i'll bet he's gonna
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say something interesting about all of this why is there something interesting to say
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i was baptized in the catholic church uh uh what almost 10 years ago
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and i am quite sincere in my devotions although
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i'm also somebody that has five planets in their ninth ninth house and if it were
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500 years ago i'm the sort of guy that have to worry about being burned at the stake
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these days the current church just labels me a nazian racist
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but that's okay i'm not i'm not much of a group person at the end of the day
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but the catholic church in particular and other christian faiths and other faiths as well
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the catholic church being the one i can speak to the best
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does have a very rich and nuanced spiritual tradition
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it's it's not a sledgehammer it's not a series of rules it's not merely a series of rules it's
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on the one hand i've met some amazing priests with powerful graces who
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are not interested in using religion as a cudgel
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they're interested in having communion with you a fellow soul and helping you in your spiritual development
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i've also met priests that couldn't see past the ten commandments
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and i've known a lot of women that wound up being very harmed by their early religious upbringing
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with zero tolerance tolerance policies in school
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all the shipbirds got away with whatever mayhem they wanted
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while all the good kids are the ones that got punished for breaking these rules
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girls they were good girls walking on a good path
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instead of being encouraged where they were going
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some priest probably with a misogyny complex absolutely
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nuked them from orbit when they were just entering womanhood
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and it caused a lot of psychic damage for these girls
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and it's because of these failures that i've mentioned before
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with uh ken wilbur's book the religion of the future
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as i've said spoiler the religion of the future is the ones we have right now
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they're going to be so much better than they are right now
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and a lot of the western religions are very much mired in the bronze age
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it's because we are dealing with the hangover from the age of pisces
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so christianity in particular i mean all of our modern religions
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okay the past 2 000 years of the piscean age have been when mysticism took hold of humanity
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prior to that we had the age of aries where heroism took over humanity prior to that the age of taurus
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was to start getting humanity to ascend spiritually
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in the east they ascended through states of consciousness
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without advancing their stages of consciousness
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but they stayed locked in at a patriarchal parochial version of society
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written down and theologized during the bronze age
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while the stages of moral thought became more complex
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and so to explore this i'm going to be talking about four of ken wilbur's stages
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which is the rules and responsibilities actually let's let's start with stage three straight
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right it's it's the independent stage of a child growing up
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it's where they're trying to gain control over their environment where they start saying no
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the subject becomes the object of the new subject
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now becomes the thing that you observe and control
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this is when slavery was invented this is when the tyrannical king gods
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dictates life for everybody and why do you follow the rules
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not because he's an enlightened monarch monarch
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because he said so and he's literally the son of marduk
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age of pisces saw this very toxic form of stage four
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turn into a more enlightened form of stage four
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that if a slave is being a good slave then they should be treated well
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but not the radical egalitarianism that we have now is a very different it was an egality
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of slave and master without dissolving the roles of slave and master
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and this is when the stage five began taking on
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so the leaders of christianity and the leaders of the nations
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started becoming very rational very tactical in their thinking
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system the the feudal system of everybody has their place and they better stay in it a very stage
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four system that got destroyed by the black death all of a sudden labor was at a premium
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there were two popes there's opportunities everywhere the the nobility recognizes that they
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need to pay tribute to the church but they also see opportunity
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the game series kingdom come deliverance is really about living in the midst of this
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this four to five transition a lot of the level five a lot of the mercenary work
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well there's two catch phrases to kingdom come deliverance too
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a dentis fortuna yevat fortune favors the bold and war is a messy business
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this level five opportunism was in its ugly phase
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where there were no rules of war where sometimes villages got burnt down
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now everybody was still stage four everybody still had complete faith in christ and the saints and the virgin mary
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they took a more realistic power assessment a capitalist assessment of what was going on
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and so all of that great heroism and villainy that you get in the middle ages following the black death
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it stems from the fact that people realize there's a power game here
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there's a game for money and recognition by the church and authority and we got to play the game smart
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so sometimes the christian monarch would burn down a village full of peasants
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that's the moral ambiguity explored in their kingdom come deliverance series
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in the middle ages it was exceptional people thinking at stage five
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all right like the top one percent most people were still at stage four
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if stage five the incipient stage five was the renaissance
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stage five went mainstream with the enlightenment
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this is when everybody became mercantile everybody became a capitalist
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and we started we started instituting some reasonable and pragmatic rules rules of war rules of trade
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basic contracts between merchant and customer between citizen and monarch
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all the stuff started becoming pretty mainstream we actually had the the reasoning man's society
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stage five the achieve the capitalist the the reasoning man
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and this is also when the bleeding edge of stage six started coming online
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stage six is the stage where you recognize that everybody's got like their own opinion man
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stage six is when the scientific method starts being developed
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understand that somebody else's point of view comes from their environment their childhood where they grew
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up etc etc etc etc and so if we're going to have some system of rules that we can agree upon
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it can't just be the king telling us what to do because he's the king and because the pope
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tossed holy water on him there needs to be some sort of objective system to which
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and that's what the scientific method is it's a a system of independent testing
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that it it doesn't matter as long as you're not completely insane we can all agree that oh if you
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step outside and you get wet it's because it's raining independent objective verification
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that's what stage six is all about and and really started bleeding in in the the period of the enlightenment 1750
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and then it went from one percent to about ten percent of the population by 1950
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now what was happening with religion during this time
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religion started hitting a mature form where it wasn't just you seeking power
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by serving the gods but you seeking social harmony seeking a a system where the the new gods of the piscean era
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all of the religions uh and christianity zoroastrianism um
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talmudic judaism that like judaism was invented in the age of pisces
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the works of plato and aristotle all of these things these are piscean
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religions that emphasize the universality of man
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in the middle ages you start getting more power seeking because everybody was of a universalist faith
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by that point even if there's a few different universalist faiths everybody's a universalist at that point
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now we start playing the power game the strategy game the achievement game
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but the church is still stuck in the bronze ages
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independent personality starts kicking off in the enlightenment and what are they doing
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they're starting they're starting to scientifically investigate the bible
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that scientific investigation the first stages of scientific investigation
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wind up contradicting a lot of the things in the bible
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you did some archaeological research to prove that actually
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there wasn't one buddha there were like three guys
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combination of these three individuals that are mythologized as guatama buddha
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for the most part that wouldn't really upset the buddhists all that much
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they're about achieving the higher states of consciousness
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creating a doctrine which is true because it literally came down from on high from golden tablets
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but as i said in the east they didn't have the stage of advancement
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they had the state advancement we had stage advancement in the west
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and the stage advancement eventually led to the crisis of faith
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and so by the 1960s see when it was just the intellectuals
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trying to grapple with the problem of quantum physics and whether or not god plays dice with the
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when it's just albert einstein doing with that like we're okay
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we're okay everybody else still believed in religion a hundred percent
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judaism christianity islam everybody still believed in it
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but it's okay if your bleeding-edge intellectuals are like that
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when the idea hits 10 percent of the population
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perspective on reality that everybody has their own unique perspective
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it turns out that the scientific perspective upon reality
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a few spiritualists a few people that really are at the higher levels
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even if they're part of a religion mired in the bronze age
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unique individuals when they're an albert einstein
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but when you've got a whole damn generation of kids
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a brief aside i i need to touch on this by the way
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there were tons of hippies that didn't join degenerate communes
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there were tons of hippies that tried to walk the talk
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tried to be ecologists tried to live in harmony and actually did a pretty darn good job
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there were a lot of right-wing level six individuals
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the past 50 years at the same time as we got all of these people ascending to the scientific ecology
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we also developed a lot of really powerful mind control technologies uh mk ultra
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we gave them federal agents to subvert them and drive them insane and
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operate them as if they're a weapon to use against foreign forces it's been an absolute mess
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so it's not just the fact that the church did not have enough high level priests
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to guide people okay we've also had you know cia agents
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subverting every single thing that happens so the past 50 years have been absolutely wild
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it's it's like the hippies that survived either learned to hide
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or or they got driven insane and we only got the worst of the hippies that were allowed to continue
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the hippies were a major spiritual advancement but the best and brightest were getting sabotaged the entire time
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that's the uh the third of the original trilogy
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money to criminals because that will oh they just they were deprived of opportunity
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would burn down peasant villages in the name of christ
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that could always see things from everybody else's perspective
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is be a good person jabba you've got the option
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and the whole thing is it's a web it's a trap that luke has made
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luke respects everybody's individuality in the in the film
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he fights against the imperial forces he fights against stormtroopers
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i i really want to do a full review of return of the jedi at some point
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there's some uh star wars conspiracy theory videos
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about how obi-wan and yoda were actually cranking up luke
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right like they were winding up anakin's own son to go murder him
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and that that's not totally fair that's not a totally fair analysis but it's got some truth to it doesn't it
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that always says we're wrong because we broke this or that rule
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jedi ism respects the traditions it respects mentorships it overcomes and integrates
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it's not rebelling against stage three luke wants to be powerful it's not rebelling against stage four
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it's not rebelling against stage five luke is seeking his destiny
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even when in the empire strikes back when he walks away from yoda
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and and ben and yoda are trying to warn him against what he's doing
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you're not ready for the struggle man you're like the darth vader will defeat you
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and i dare say a lot of us have been condemned for being boys
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although there is a place in the tradition for stage six and there always has been we've always had mystics
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to induct the sudden swell of people at stage six
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and that's what star wars is that's that's what jedi ism is
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it's a stage six individualist religion that integrates all the lower levels it's it's not a rebellious
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it's tear down society religion it's uh integrate and elevate religion
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now that's the following is this is a little bit of an aside but i don't know when i'll
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ever have a chance to say this again and um i i ran into a quote by the writer manly p hall
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who i i can't call him a christian esotericist he he's more of a syncretist
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but i've been reading a lot of this guy's stuff and i have so much respect for him not only as a scholar but as a moralist
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and the following quote is from his work magic atreides
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he's unnatural occultism and i read this and it immediately struck me
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finds the yeah please bear with me when he finds the the the jedi monument
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and all of these magical lights start swirling around
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i saw that and it struck me like this is something from harry potter that's this is not jedi
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in spiritual things experimentation is usually fatal and unnumbered students have gone to untimely
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graves and lunatic asylums or have become obsessed while they were trying something
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there is nothing in it for the true student he is not seeking to gain salvation through his eyes but
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through his soul phenomenalism never appeals to the higher side of the nature but at most
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as of old so today the cry is seldom save souls but it's usually show us miracles
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i would be really surprised to find out that george lucas read this i just think he has good instincts
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you'll notice how i just knocked over admiral akbar
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the sith the sith are the ones that wield magic powers
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magic nonsense and i'm sorry if you like harry potter but
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harry potter is a power fantasy for people that don't want to upset the longhouse matriarchy
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yes you got to have all sorts of flashy powers as long as you don't offend anybody
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being a jedi is the exact opposite of that being a jedi you offend your teachers
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magic isn't about showing off it's about accomplishing righteous ends
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level seven is the one at one percent right now
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and it's the one that really changes everything
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finally realize that you have all the stages inside of yourself
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that you were at stage three and then four and five and six
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and when as soon as you can see all of those stages
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that you you see yourself as a a tree blossoming through time
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that's stage seven and you also see everybody else
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luke skywalker sees the good that still exists in darth vader
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but he doesn't see darth vader as a growth process
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how wrong leads to growth and sometimes right leads to stagnation
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because stage seven is the first time you realize there's other stages
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every single stage up until then has a universalist
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approach to things they they demand everybody else live up to their standards
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this is the problem with a stage four bronze age priest
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they'll answer all the questions correct on the exam
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and then constantly chastise people for not being as primitive as them
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there's not a lot of priests like that but they do exist
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and it's really frustrating when you're trying to talk to one of them
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but stage seven is the first time you can see all the other stages that you can start
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integrating all of them you see everybody as part of this organic growing whole
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and if you're happy if you're healthy stage seven you won't be uh
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afraid of uh trimming some of the bushes that need to be trimmed as well
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but it wasn't going to do level six in time which is why i jedi-ism appeared
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the fact they're still making movies and video games even though most of them are terrible
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but they keep trying to make them is because people need that stage six they need that leap
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the stage seven integrated christianity of the future
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uh the astral pyramid the effect of the age of pisces
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you know i ran into a i ran into a good video analyzing christ as a fictional character
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like badly written smart characters versus good smart characters
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christ is an extremely well written smart character
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the guy outsmarts his way out of so many theological traps
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exemplifies a high level of spiritual a very high level of spiritual development
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i'll tell you no modern hollywood writer could write a christ
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and yet we took these really profound individuals and we started building
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we came up with a prosaic interpretation of what they said
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and now if we can just force everybody on the planet to believe the same damn thing
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then we'll i don't know second coming or something
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no we need to get people to the integration list
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promote jedi-ism i'm not saying you need to join a jedi temple
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there's other ways you can go about this it's just that jedi is is really really common
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if you recognize it as the stage six the beginning of individuation
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luke skywalker isn't a rebel despite being part of the rebel alliance
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after he joins he does his duty and he seeks to reform his father
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luke skywalker managed to hold on to the past while seizing the future